Nonprofits — Community Services

Amala Foundation

The Amala Foundation serves and catalyzes communities and individuals to actualize a deeper life through humanitarian service, authentic community, and sustainable peace initiatives that start from within. www.amalafoundation.org


American Red Cross of Central Texas

The American Red Cross of Central Texas is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross Movement to provide relief to disaster victims and help people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. www.centex.redcross.org


Ashera Project

Ashera Project, Inc. is an Austin based non-profit youth development program, focusing its efforts on at-risk youth in high schools. Ashera Project concentrates on four different areas: sexual health education, connection to community through service learning projects, creating a plan after high school, and a leadership program offering mentorship to first year students. www.asheraproject.org


The Austin Community Foundation

The Austin Community Foundation is a unique, not-for-profit connection between donors from all walks of life and the broad spectrum of efforts that improve our evolving community. The Foundation brings an efficiency of scale to these donors, allowing their charitable dollars to go as far as possible toward improving life for all Central Texans. www.austincommunityfoundation.org


Avance-Austin

Avance unlocks America's potential by building stronger children, parents, families and communities through programs supporting at-risk families. Parenting and Early Childhood Programs, Literacy Programs, and Healthy Marriage Program. www.avance-austin.org


BCL of Texas (Business & Community Lenders of Texas)

BCL of Texas helps underserved entrepreneurs through counseling, business TA, and business development with the goal of growing the local economic base and creation of jobs for the State of Texas. www.bcloftexas.org


Capital Area Crime Stoppers

Our Mission is to assist local law enforcement in the fight against crime in our community. www.austincrimestoppers.org


The Care Communities


The Care Communities recruits, trains and manages Care Teams comprised of 4-6 volunteers who provide non-medical, practical and compassionate support to people with serious illness, especially AIDS or cancer, who do not have adequate support systems. This allows them to continue in their home environment for as long as possible. www.thecarecommunities.org


Catholic Charities

Catholic Charities is dedicated to helping people of all ages, faiths, ethnic backgrounds and economic circumstances and works to address the needs of residents in the Diocese of Austin. All services have a family strengthening component and work to empower and promote self sufficiency. www.ccctx.org


Clarksville Community Development

The CCDC works to preserve the history of historic Clarksville and to maintain the ethnic and economic diversity of the neighborhood through its affordable housing program. www.historicclarksville.com


Community Shares of Texas

Our mission is to connect working Texans with causes they care about through Workplace Giving. Our members are empowering average people and those who are marginalized in our community by removing barriers to success. We partner with businesses to tackle the tough challenges - housing, healthcare, discrimination, etc. www.communitysharestx.org


Dress for Success Austin

The mission of Dress for Success is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life. austin@dressforsuccess.org


El Buen Samaritano Episcopal Mission

Since 1987, El Buen has provided integrated health care, social services, adult and early-childhood education and community outreach for working-poor Hispanic families. El Buen guides and supports working-poor families through the process of gaining self-sufficiency by offering offer “a hand up, not a hand-out”. www.elbuen.org


Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas

The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas amplifies the philanthropic efforts of our member companies, their entrepreneurs, boards and employees who invest equity, time and talent to make Central Texas an even better place to live, work and play. Our programs help build successful corporate cultures and allow start-up companies to participate philanthropically. www.givetoaustin.org


Greenlights for NonProfit Success

Greenlights works for a stronger Central Texas by serving as a catalyst for exceptional nonprofit performance and impact. We serve more than 800 nonprofits in Central Texas annually by providing high-quality management consulting and financial management services, offering over 70 educational workshops and conferences, and being the go-to resource for all things nonprofit. www.greenlights.org


Jewish Community Association of Austin

The JCAA provides a vast array of services and programs, from enrichment opportunities for all ages to support services for families, from health- and wellness-oriented programming to global philanthropy. Our mission is to enhance the quality of Jewish life in the greater Austin area and around the world, through charitable, educational, social service, cultural, religious, and recreational endeavors. www.shalomaustin.org


The Junior League of Austin

An organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism; developing the potential of women and improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. We are dedicated to strengthening our community through creative solutions to current and future challenges. www.jlaustin.org


Las Comadres Para Las Américas

Connecting and Empowering Latinas through community building/networking, culture, learning and technology. www.lascomadres.org


Leadership Austin


Leadership Austin fosters a non-partisan environment where people of diverse backgrounds come together to learn about civic leadership and engage in meaningful dialogue about important public issues. Leadership Austin challenges program participants to use their newfound skills and connections to influence the community in measurable ways and improve the quality of life in our region. www.leadershipaustin.org


The Missy Project

The Missy Project is dedicated to Raising Awareness of Brain Aneurysm Disease in children through education, outreach and early detection research. www.themissyproject.com


Mothers Against Drunk Driving

MADD seeks to stop drunk driving, support the victims of this violent crime and prevent underage drinking. www.madd.org/tx


Patient Privacy Rights

We are the nation’s premier health privacy watch dog led by consumers and patients. Our mission is to ensure that Americans control all access to their health records. While providing information to the public and media on HIPAA, we offer many other services and are working with Congress for privacy protecting federal legislation. www.patientprivacyrights.org


Peace Officers' Memorial Foundation

The POMF honors the fallen by providing assistance and support in a line of duty death. The POMF also offers college scholarships, sponsors the biennial Memorial Service at the State Capitol and supports research to find and honor all Texas Peace Officers who throughout history have made the ultimate sacrifice. www.pomf.org


PeopleFund

PeopleFund is a nonprofit financial institution that promotes financial opportunity and stability for low income people by assisting them to: build successful small businesses, purchase safe and affordable homes, achieve financial security and independence and, form prosperous communities through providing fair and just loan products, training in business management, financial literacy and homebuyer preparedness. www.peoplefund.org


Texas Interagency Interfaith Disaster Response

TIDR provides training and tools to grow disaster resilient communities through education, interagency and interfaith coordination, providing direct client aid and case management. We host for the Unmet Needs Roundtable for the Austin area and are active members in Central Texas Voluntary Organization Active in Disaster. www.tidr.org


United Way Capital Area

United Way Capital Area addresses critical social issues by bringing people and resources together to create opportunities for individuals, families and neighborhoods to prosper. www.unitedwaycapitalarea.org


YMCA of Austin

The Mission of the YMCA of Austin is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The 5 core development values of Respect, Responsibility, Honesty, Caring and Faith are the basis for all that we do. www.austinymca.org


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